Recently retired Claire Weston spent her entire life working... Essentially willingly, she'd all but given up her personal life, never marrying, voluntarily missing out on family gatherings, weekends and holidays, only to lose the man she'd worked side by side with through it all, a man nearly everyone had blatantly accused her of loving for all those years. Unable to face a professional future without him in it, Claire had promptly retired, and then, at the urging of her widowed sister, both women escaped to the sugar white sands along the Emerald Coast of Florida for a month in the sun.Unlike Elaine, who immediately took off down the beach on their first day, Claire was content to just lie in the sun and read the days away... but that was not to be the case, as her matchmaking sister promptly arranged a dinner date for the two of them almost as soon as they arrived in town. Unable to refuse, Claire agreed to go, only to find herself alone with a man she'd barely met... would she be tempted by Nicholas Cooper's charming personality or would she turn tail and run back to the only life she'd ever known?